Korean Academy of Film Arts’ The Apartment with Two Women, Officially Invited to the Berlin International Film Festival

The film <The Apartment with Two Women> has been officially invited to the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), which will be held in February 2022. The film is a graduation work from Korean Academy of Film Arts...

PENINSULA Sets August 7 Launch in North America

YEON Sang-ho’s Train to Busan (2016) sequel Peninsula has just opened in several Asian markets and is now set to invade North America, where local distributor Well Go USA has announced that it will be released on August 7. Part of this year’s Cannes selection,...

LEE Jung-hyun to Push Herself to the LIMIT

LEE Jung-hyun has signed on to appear in the kidnap-themed crime thriller Limit (literal title), the new film from The Spy: Undercover Operation (2013) director LEE Seung-jun. The star will play police officer So-eun who goes undercover to help parents locate ...

MOON So-ri, LEE Yoo-young and More Join SF8 Anthology Series

Top film directors and stars have assembled for sci-fi anthology series SF8. The eight-part limited series is a joint project between the Directors Guild of Korea and the streaming platform Wavve and will begin airing on broadcast network MBC in August of this...

PARK Jung-bum Awarded Special Jury Prize at Locarno

PARK Jung-bum’s third film Height of the Wave has picked up the Special Jury Prize in competition at the 72nd Locarno International Film Festival. The film stars LEE Seung-yeon (House of Hummingbird) as a police officer who is restationed to an out-of-the-way ...

KWON Sang-woo, LEE Jung-hyun and LEE Jong-hyeuk to Become GUY GUY GIRL

Actors KWON Sang-woo, LEE Jung-hyun and LEE Jong-hyeuk will join forces in the upcoming romantic comedy title Guy Guy Girl (translated title), which will mark the latest directorial outing of PARK Yong-jip. KWON will next be seen on screens in a sequel to the ...

LEE Jung-hyun Makes a SECRET AGREEMENT

LEE Jung-hyun has found her follow-up project to last year’s World War II action drama The Battleship Island, after signing on to play the leading role in the forthcoming thriller Secret Agreement (translated title). The star will take on the role of Seo Joo-h...

THE BATTLESHIP ISLAND to Debut in the United States On August 4th

RYOO Seung-wan’s slave labor war film, The Battleship Island will debut in the United States on August 4th after its domestic release on July 26th. After the film’s American premiere, it will be released in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, ...

Wildflowers Film Awards Return for 4th Edition

The Wildflower Film Awards Korea will return for their 4th edition on April 12th. Run by Korean film critic Darcy Paquet, with fellow critics OH Dong-jin serving as organizing director, the event celebrates the achievement in Korea’s vibrant independent cinema...

Jecheon Hands Grand Prize to COOL CATS

32,000 Spectators Visit 12th Jecheon Intl. Music & Film Festival The 12th edition of the Jecheon International Music & Film Festival (JIMFF) came to a close on August 16th. The festival handed out its top prize to Janus Køster-Rasmussen’s documentary ...